Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol... Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy ... more »

In the third and final book of the Starbridge Chronicles, more than two generations have passed since the events of Sugar Rain , and barren tundra has given way to fecund, steamy jungle at the height of summer. Deep in the forest, a twin boy and girl grow up among a strange race of philosophers, oblivious ... more »

In Light Play, Dr. Caroline Denaro's experiments with plant and animal genes had lethal consequences. Some of the gene sequences she transferred contained a virus. First, her rats, and then Denaro herself, succumbed to her experimental error. In a desperate effort to save herself, Denaro contacted Rick ... more »

When it comes to sheer imagination and storytelling prowess, Anne McCaffrey is in a class by herself. Few writers have created characters more deeply loved or futures more intensely lived. For more than thirty years, she has reigned as one of the premier talents in science fiction and fantasy, flying ... more »

Acorna, the unicorn girl has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and ... more »

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamiltons bestselling fictionpowered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skillshas also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens ... more »

Petaybee was growing up. Day by day, the sentient planet--like any child--was learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech. But few outsiders truly cared for the feelings and intelligence ... more »

In the conclusion to this epic interstellar adventure by Nebula Award nominee Wil McCarthy, humanity stands at a crossroads as the heroes who fashioned a man-made heaven must rescue their descendants from eternal damnation.... TO CRUSH THE MOON Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind ... more »

Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter - ... more »

An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description. VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed ... more »

Respected editor David Pringle selected this work as one of the top 100 science fiction novels of the century! In this story, specially updated for Fictionwise by the author, an anthropologist travels to the central Australian desert to search for the source of an aboriginal myth; he suspects the terrible ... more »

A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry--a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization. This book won Cherryh a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1982. A blockbuster space opera of the ... more »